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Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo - Softcover

Buch 1 von 2: Italy and Italians

Parks, Tim

 
9780393348828: Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393348822 ISBN 13: 9780393348828
Verlag: Norton & Company, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Los Angeles Times Book ReviewParks begins as any traveler might: "A train is a train is a train, isn’t it?" But soon he turns his novelist’s eye to the details, and as he journeys through majestic Milano Centrale station or on the newest high-speed rail line, he delivers a uniquely insightful portrait of Italy. Through memorable encounters with ordinary Italians—conductors and ticket collectors, priests and prostitutes, scholars and lovers, gypsies and immigrants—Parks captures what makes Italian life distinctive: an obsession with speed but an acceptance of slower, older ways; a blind eye toward brutal architecture amid grand monuments; and an undying love of a good argument and the perfect cappuccino.Italian WaysItalian Ways

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tim Parks's acclaimed books about Italy include Italian Ways, Italian Neighbors, and An Italian Education. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He lives in Italy.

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Verlag
Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393348822
ISBN 13 
9780393348828
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
261
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